CJ Kelley wrote:
----- Original Message ----
From: ET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 1:03:59 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is
there a way to reduce that?
CJ Kelley wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: ET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 8:39:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is
> there a way to reduce that?
>
> CJ Kelley wrote:
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: ET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 4:51:47 AM
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is
> > there a way to reduce that?
> >
> > CJ Kelley wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----
> > > From: Georgi Stoynev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 12:56:37 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is
> > > there a way to reduce that?
> > >
> > > I ran the mandriva live cd (the 1 cd distro) and
> > > noticed that it consumed a large chunk of ram (about
> > > 390 megs.) and left me with 4 megs of ram (i have 512
> > > installed and 128 megs of that is consumed by teh
> > > video card..yes i do have shared video). I went into
> > > its task manager to see howmuch it was consuming and
> > > what processes i could clsoe out. A great majority of
> > > the processes looked like system processes.
> > >
> > > Would the installed mandriva take less ram (since i
> > > was using the live cd) ?
> > >
> > > How can i keep un-necessary processes from loading
> > > when mandriva loads?
> > >
> > > --cj
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > you can check exactly how much ram your system use by
> > > typing "free" in the terminal(Konsole if you use
> > > KDE).Do you have swap partition enabled?If not,is good
> > > idea to create one.Swap is virtual memory,the same
> > > like pagefile in Win.
> > > For example there is my system:
> > > free
> > > total used free shared
> > > buffers cached
> > > Mem: 288088 283544 4544 0
> > > 17272 150948
> > > -/+ buffers/cache: 115324 172764
> > > Swap: 578332 0 578332
> > >
> > > You can see that my available physical memory is about
> > > 4.5MB.Anyway,this doesn't effect my work,because it
> > > can use the swap partition.You can enable swap with
> > > "swapon" command (check man swapon for more info).
> > >
> > > Have a good one!
> > > G.S.
> > >
> > > ----cjs reply----
> > > Since i do not have a linux partition on my hard drive (and im
runnign
> > > it on the live cd) i cant use swap. but by default, swap will be
> > > enabled. I never recommend taking off swap.
> > > ----end of reply----
> >
> > the live CD creates as large a dynamic ram disk as is possible, the OS
> > is all in memory all the time, you will find that opening files
will be
> > quicker in the hard drive install (hard drive seek and reads being so
> > much quicker than CDrom reads and seeks)
> >
> > were you having low ram problems like the the mouse curser jumping
> > around and not able to keep up?
> >
> > ----cjs reply----
> > The mouse was a bit choppy, but it wasn't like it was lagging.
> >
> >
> > I'm running a celeron 3.22 ghz (512k l2 cache), with 512 mb memory
> > shared. I dont have any available partitioning space left on the hard
> > drive so i dot think i can install mandriva (if im right, mandriva
still
> > requires a swap partition correct?) because i don't have any space
left
> > for a Linux partition. Also, my hard drive will not accept any other
> > sort of partition except ntfs.
>
> sure it will... what sort of drive is this?
>
> --cjs reply--
> No, this hard disk is only ntfs compatible..i ran a partitioning program
> on this disk (it was not an OEM partitioner) and it said that this hard
> drive only accepted NTFS
I have not seen such a thing before. what brand of hard drive is it
(Western digital? M$?) most likely that's just bull. send it to me, and
for 20 buck's i will prove them wrong andleave you a hard drive with
linux installed.
it can only use NTFS _if_ a Microsoft compatible file system is
_required_ that is larger than 40 gigs per partition.
don't instantly accept what a manufacturer tell you (do you count on
getting the fuel mileage you car manufacturer told you the car gets?
(been stuck lately) do you check the oil in your car as often as the
owners manual says you MUST?)
----cjs reply----
ok first off, i believe i am running a hitachi (i cant open my chasis,
my parents wont allow me, so i cant send ya the hdd. besides its teh
only one ive got). Furthermore, i ran the windows partitioning utility
and it only gave me the option of NTFS.. Furthermore, i tried running
DEMO Linux (DEMO is the codename..) and some other distros (mandriva,
ubuntu) and they would not detect it, nor would they mount it. I have a
114 gig hdd on my machine.
I promise this drive can be partitioned and have a linux filesystem
installed. really... on the windows disk, run scan disk, then defrag
then start up with the Mandriva one or Knoppix, and see if they are
willing to install for you... (as long as there is about 10 gigs at the
end of the drive free, it should just partition and install for you.
most Linux distros will not mount an ntfs file system as read-write
because the support for writing to an ntfs file system is not safe for
non M$ lic. software.
instead of Demo linux try running the Mandriva one linux OS from the
cdrom, I bet it lets you read from the NTFS file system, but just not
read from it. also please consider that the newest version of demo linux
looks to be about 3 or 4 years old, this is quite old for a linux distro
version, there has been considerable improvements since 28/07/2002, when
the latest version of demo linux came out, as far as I can tell.
the amount of "ram left" in doze has nothing to do with the amount of
ram a Linux system see or needs, unless it is running in a VM inside 'doze.
--
reg. Linux User 167806
webhome http://ed-tharp.is-a-geek.org
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